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New York Times Bestseller • National Book Critics Circle Award Winner • Times Ten Best Nonphibility Books of the Decade
“A luxurious and stirring epic. Ms. Wilkarson does for great stay that John Steinback did for his story Kriti, The Grapes of anger in anger; she makes history human, giving it an emotional and psychological depth.” – John Street, Wall Street Journal.
“What he has done with these oral history, Amber has a stove memory.” – Linal George, Los Angeles Times
Winner: The Mark Litton History Prize • AnisField-Wolf Award for Nonphibility
Finalist: The Penn/John Kenneth Galbrath Award for Nonphues • Dhanon Litera Peace Prize
One of the ten best books of the year: The New York Times • USA Today • Publishers Weekly • O: The Opra Magazine • Salon • Salon • NewsDe • The Daily Beast
One of the best books of the year: The New Yorker • The Washington Post • The Economist • Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Entertainment Weekly • Philadelphia Inquitory • The Garzian • The Garzian • The Gargian • The Seattle Times • St. Luye Post-Dishes Monitor.
In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Awards -Vajet Writer Isabel Wilkarson presents a certain and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories in American history: the great migration of six million black citizens who fled to north and south in the north and west in search of a better life from World War 1970.
Wilkarson told this interwaoven story through the life of three unforgettable hero: Ida I Gladney, the wife of a sharecropper, who escaped from Mississippi for Chicago in 1937; Sharp and Quick Tempered George Starling, who fled from Florida for Harlem in 1945, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in the hope of making it in California.
Wilkarson brilliantly captured his new life in his first trusted cross-country trips and colonies in the new world. The heat of the other sun is a bold, notable and riveting work, which is a great account of “unfamiliar immigration” within our own land. Through the width of its story, the beauty of writing, the depth of its research, and the perfection of the people and the life depicted here, this book is a modern classic.
Publisher
Publisher: vintage; Rage Edition (October 4, 2011)
language English
Paperback: 640 page
ISBN -10: 0679763880
ISBN -13: 978-0679763888
Lexyl Measure: 1160L
Items Weight: 2 pounds
Dimensions: 6.09 x 1.72 x 9.22 inch
Customers say
Customers find this book to be an excellent piece of narrative non-fiction that helps them better understand the history of the Great Migration. The writing is well-crafted, and customers appreciate how it captures the humanness of the migration through personalized accounts. Customers describe the book as heartwrenching and inspiring, with one review noting how it brings to life the real struggles of the people involved. While the book receives positive feedback for its character development, some customers find it long and repetitive.
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